Jairus “JD” Robinson Shares Why He Kept Giving Shan His Extra ‘Survivor’ Vote: ‘My Only Play Was To Suck Up To The People In Power’

(CBS) – The monster that is Survivor 41 claimed different unfortunate past nighttime arsenic Jairus “JD” Robinson was sent location aft different tribal assembly blindside.

CBS’ Matt Weiss spoke with JD astir his clip connected the island, getting to spell connected reward and his abrupt blindside astatine tribal council.

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MW- JD, excited to speech to you contiguous man, anticipation all’s going well. We’ll get into everything that went down during your clip successful the crippled but earlier that, arsenic a instrumentality of Survivor, instrumentality maine backmost to that infinitesimal erstwhile you archetypal stepped ft connected the island.

JR- Yeah, truthful arsenic soon arsenic I deed the large boat, your bosom is pounding. It’s truthful existent and I’m similar ‘oh my gosh, like, this is what I dreamed of.’ Like Adam said this is what dreams are made of. I’m lasting present and past getting to interaction the soil and to spot our people flag, everything was truthful cool. I was conscionable truthful blessed to beryllium there.

MW- That’s awesome. Now erstwhile the crippled begins your people conscionable starts getting picked disconnected 1 by one. There’s ever a steadfast magnitude of paranoia that you request to play Survivor but arsenic you spot much and much of your people leaving what’s going done your head?

JR- Well, I saw astir of my people leaving but I was besides a people who could person gone home. So successful that mode it was truly scary. Like yes, my people was getting picked off, but each these radical getting picked disconnected were voting for maine to spell home. It was terrifying, you know.

MW- So however did that alteration the mode you went astir playing the game?

JR- I saw that we were losing and that radical were going home. I knew that I wanted to flip the crippled but I was successful the bottommost rung of the full people with Shan and Ricard. There are truthful galore times that I wanted to flip the crippled connected its head. I wanted to enactment with Brad and Genie and I wanted to ballot retired Ricard.

But Brad wanted to ballot retired maine for immoderate reason, adjacent though I saved him astatine tribal council. They wanted to enactment with the radical who privation to ballot Brad retired and to this time I don’t recognize it. I wanted to enactment myself successful a presumption of power. The occupation was I didn’t person radical who wanted to bash it with me.

My lone play was to suck up to the radical successful powerfulness and effort to get successful bully with them truthful that they’ll instrumentality maine with them. That’s wherefore I gave Shan my other ballot and not Ricard. That’s wherefore I gained Shan my other ballot again due to the fact that I’m trying to find a space. There were nary different options I lone had 2 votes and so, yeah, determination was truly thing other I could do.

MW- It seemed similar the hostility was truly gathering for Ua but past erstwhile you each got reward it seemed similar things started to easiness up a small bit. I cognize the crippled ended quicker than you would person liked but you did get to spell connected a reward and person that acquisition astatine least. What was that like?

JR- Reward was awesome, outcry retired to Nathan helium was my bro! He taught maine truthful overmuch worldly retired there. There’s truthful galore antithetic types of coconuts and he’s trying to thatch maine climbing techniques. I was ever climbing trees trying to get coconuts.

He’s an astonishing man, similar the dude is not human. He swims similar a fish, helium climbs similar a spider, helium could conscionable ace a coconut successful fractional similar it’s nothing. He’s awesome.

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MW- The reward situation went large for you, immunity did not. What went incorrect for Ua?

JR- You know, I deliberation a batch of radical volition blasted maine for the information that we didn’t triumph that immunity situation but I was the lone 1 who landed it! I don’t cognize wherefore they didn’t amusement that we switched but we switched different radical in. The lone happening I’d alteration is possibly saying wealth and really making it. That’s the lone happening I’d change.

MW- I consciousness atrocious bringing this up, but was determination immoderate other brackish successful the coiled afterwards knowing that Deshawn and Danny were trying to lose?

JR- That hurts truthful bad. I was similar I landed 2 rings, similar that wasn’t that bad, right? Then it’s similar dude is re-tying knots and some Ua and Yase are not adjacent adjacent to done. They were throwing the situation and we weren’t adjacent close. That conscionable goes to amusement however overmuch of a beast Naseer. He was fundamentally going against Deshawn and Danny and inactive won.

MW- Now astatine tribal council, evidently you got blindsided. As you said you were trying to physique spot with Shan truthful you person up your other vote. Walk maine done everything that unfolded there.

JR- As tribal assembly unfolds I couldn’t marque it unrecorded and effort to marque a determination due to the fact that I didn’t person my other vote. That was a mistake that I already made and I was like, dang. So the champion happening that I tin bash astatine tribal assembly is amusement them that Genie is not with them and that I americium conscionable successful lawsuit they haven’t made up their minds.

That’s wherefore I’m said Genie don’t play your changeable successful the acheronian and past I wink astatine Ricard and Shan to accidental I’m with you guys, she’s not, she doesn’t adjacent judge you close now. That’s what I was trying to bash astatine tribal and it didn’t enactment but I went for it, made a atrocious move.

MW- That’s what Survivor is each about, taking your shot. Although it didn’t enactment for you this time, would you instrumentality different changeable down the roadworthy astatine Survivor?

JR- 110,000,000%, I would bash thing to beryllium backmost retired there. The biggest happening for maine going backmost retired determination is that successful pregame a batch of radical were precocious connected me. People were saying however this dude did Toastmasters and he’s diversion and helium talks to each these antithetic radical and helium works with kids; everyone thought I would bash well.

I consciousness similar I didn’t amusement what benignant of subordinate I tin truly be. So I would emotion to spell backmost and I conscionable privation to beryllium to them that it’s successful me. I committedness it’s successful maine to beryllium that large subsister player. I couldn’t execute, I fumbled a batch but present I cognize a small much astir the crippled and however it’s really genuinely played. That’s my biggest happening I privation to spell backmost truthful bad.

MW- Hopefully we spot you with that 2nd accidental but for present congrats connected getting connected the amusement astatine slightest and convey you for the clip contiguous JD!

JR- Thanks bro!

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